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Ph.D. in Biomedical Science: Area of Concentration

Neuroscience

Students
Jason Cromer
Previous Education: B.S., Lafayette College
Major Advisor: Dr. David Waitzman
E-mail:
cromer@student.uchc.edu

Yuanzheng Gao
Prev. Education: B.Med., Bengbu Medical College, M.S., Shanghai Second Medical University
Thesis Advisor: Dr. John Carson
E-mail: gao@student.uchc.edu

Mary Hamby
Prev. Education: B.S., University of Florida
Major Advisor: Dr. Sandra Hewett
E-mail: hamby@student.uchc.edu

Zhou Han
Prev. Education: B.M., Beijing Medical University
Major Advisor: Dr. John Carson
E-mail: han@student.uchc.edu

Kristrian Hedstrom
Prev. Education: B.S., Boston College
Major Advisor:
E-mail: hedstrom@student.uchc.edu

Lei Jin
Prev. Education: B.S., Beijing Medical University
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Leslie Loew
E-mail: jinljinl@yahoo.com

Joseph Madara
Prev. Education: B.S., Bates College, M.S., University of Hartford
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Eric Levine
E-mail: madara@student.uchc.edu

Mark Niciu
Prev. Education: B.S., Manhattan College
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Betty Eipper
E-mail: niciu@student.uchc.edu
Combined M.D./Ph.D. Program

Jane Tayler
Prev. Education: B.A. University of Connecticut
Major Advisor:
E-mail: tayler@student.uchc.edu

Yang Yang
Prev. Education: B.S., M.Sc., West China University of Medical Sciences
Major Advisor: Dr. Matthew Rasband
E-mail: yyang@student.uchc.edu

Past Trainees of Faculty

Name

Pre/Postdoc

Training Period

Current Position

Behddah, Sheila

Pre

1997-1999

Millennium Pharmaceutical, Boston

Bouverat, Brian

Pre

1996-1999

Syracuse University Research Assistant

Brumwell, Craig Pre 1995-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow
U. Mass Medical Center
Cui, Hongyi Pre 1996-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow UCHC

Denniger, Adam

Pre

1999-2000

Research Assistant, UCHC

Kim, Taeyoon

Pre

1994-1998

Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH

Kumar, Madhur

Pre

1996-1997

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard

Hill, Sandra

Pre

1990-1996

Postdoctoral Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine

Smith-Slatas, Candra

Pre

1994-1998

UCHC School of Medicine

Cain, Peter

Post

1992-1995

Assist. Prof. St. Lawrence Univ.

Talavage, Thomas

Pre

1994-1996

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

Kerner, Ann-Louise

Pre

1980-1983

Patent lawyer, Boston

Barbarese, Elisa

Post

1983-1984

Professor, UCHC

Akowitz, Alfred

Pre

1982-1986

Senior scientist, EGG-Wallac, NJ

Young, Kuan-Yun

Pre

1985-1988

Nurse practitioner, New Haven, CT

Carnow, Tom

Post

1984-1990

President, Consulting Firm

Ainger, Kevin

Pre

1990-1996

Research Scientist, SISSA Trieste, Italy

Avossa, D.

Post

1992-1996

Postdoctoral Fellow, SISSA Trieste, Italy

Gao, Youhe

Pre

1992- 1996

Postdoctoral fellow, Mass. General Hospital

Sun, Yilong

Pre

1992-1996

Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

Kwon, Sunjong

Pre

1995-1998

Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University

Oyarce, Ana Maria

Post

1991-1999

Asst. Prof Pharmacology, Medical Coll. Ohio

Kolhekar, Aparna

Post

1994-1999

Scientist, Purification; Biopharmaceutical Development Program, SAIC-Frederick, MD

Alam, Rashidul

Post

1994-1998

Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH

Schiller, Martin

Post

1994-1997

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Bloomquist, Brian

Post

1989-1994

Staff Scientist, Miles Labs

Mueller, Greg

Sabbatical

1993

Professor, Uniformed Services University

Yun, Hye-Young

Pre and Post

1991-1995

Asst Prof Biochem, Chung-Ang Univ, Seoul,South Korea

Maltese, Jean-Yves

Post

1990-1993

Staff Scientist, Hoffman-LaRoche

Husten, Jean

Post

1988-1993

Staff Scientist, Cephalon

Ouafik, L'Houcine

Post

1988-1990

Asst Prof, Univ Aix-Marseille

Stoffers, Doris

Pre

1986-1990

Research Fellow in Med. Mass. Gen. Hosp.

Thiele, Elizabeth

Pre

1984-1988

Dept. of Neurology, Children's Hosp., Boston

May, Victor

Post

1983-1988

Prof. Neurobiol, Univ Vermont

Emeson, Ron

Pre

1981-1986

Prof. Pharmacology, Vanderbilt

Glembotski, Chris

Post

1979-1983

Professor, San Diego State

Nuding, S.C.

Pre

1986-1992

Res . Associate, College of Med., University of South Florida

Rehnberg, B.G.

Post

1987-1990

Assoc. Prof., Biological Sciences, York College

Formaker, B.

Post

1991-1993

Research Associate, UCHC

Cain, P.

Post

1994-1995

Assistant Professor, Saint Lawrence University

Wehby, R.

Pre

1991-1997

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Cognitive Sciences

Halsell, C. B.

Pre

1985-1991

Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle

Myers, W.E.

Pre

1982-1991

Instructor, St. Joseph College

Vidwans, Aniruddha

Post

1996-1999

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, UCHC

Sun, Xiaoming

Pre

1994-1998

Faculty, Univ. South Alabama

Ghoshal, Sudipto

Pre

1989-1997

Princip. Res. Engin., Qualtech Systems, CT

Arle, Jeffrey

Pre

1989-1992

Neurosurgeon, Private Practice, Boston

Siegel, Jonathan

Pre

1978-1981

Faculty, Northwestern Univ. , IL

Gaumond, Roger P.

Pre

1976-1980

Faculty, PA State Univ.

Gibian, Gary L.

Pre

1975-1979

Res. Scientist, Planning Systems, Inc., McLean, VA

Neely, Stephen, T.

Pre

1977-1981

Res. Scientist, Boys Town Nat. Hosp., Omaha, NE

Ye, Ye

Post

1996-1997

Instructor, UCHC

Parham, Kourosh

Post

1989-1991

Medical Student, UCHC

Zhao, Hongbo

Post

1993-1995

Res. Assoc., Baylor Coll., Houston, TX

Smurzynski, Jacek

Post

1989-1992

Res. Assoc. HNO-Klinik, Basel, Switzerland

Chang, Sun O.

Post

1989-1991

Faculty, Seoul National Univ., Korea

Feng, Jane J.

Pre

1984-1989

Assoc. Prof., Southern CT State Univ.

Stanford,Terrence R.

Pre

1984-1989

Asst Prof. , Bowman Gray Univ. Med. Sch.

Batra, Ranjan

Post

1983-1992

Asst. Prof., Univ. Mississippi Med. Sch.

Fitzpatrick, Douglas C.

Post

1992-1999

Asst. Prof., Univ. NC Med. Sch.

Gennosa, Thomas J.

Pre

1989-1991

Physician, Univ. Virginia Med. Sch.

Parham, Kourash

Post

1995-1996

Medical Student, UCHC

Fink, Charles C.

Pre

1993-1999

Post-doc at Stanford U. with Tobias Meyer

Sparagna, Genevieve

Post

1996-1997

Post, University of Texas

Hoffacker, Kurt

Post

1996-1999

Staff Scientist, Luminex Corp.

Zhang, Jing

Pre

1995-1998

Post at U.C. San Diego

Brown, Martin

Pre

1990-1996

Posttoral fellow with Dr. Kenneth Yamada,NIH

Gross, Eitan

Post

1992-1994

Asst. Professor of Physiology Case Western University

Bedlack, Richard

Pre

1990-1993

Chief Resident in Neurology Duke Univ.

Richardson, Diane

Post

1989-1991

Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke

Farkas, Daniel L.

Post

1987-1991

Prof. of Bioengineering Univ. of Pittsburgh

Lojewska, Zenobia

Post

1985-1989

Associate Professor, Springfield College

Wei, Mei-de

Post

1985-1989

Research Associate, UCHC

Wuskell, Joseph P.

Post

1986-1989

Research Associate, UCHC

Ciccotosto, Joe

Post

1996-1999

Post, Univ Melbourne

Caldwell, Ben

Post

1995-1998

Asst Prof, Missouri Western State College

Paquet, Luc

Post

1993-1995

Staff Scientist, MRC Canada

Zhou, An

Post

1992-1995

HHMI Post, Univ Chicago

Milgram, Sharon

Post

1991-1994

Asst Prof, Univ N. Carolina

Tausk, Pancho

Post

1991-1992

Asst Prof, Johns Hopkins

Bayer, Virginia

Post

1991-1992

Scientist, Carl Zeiss

Noel, Gilles

Post

1988-1990

Patent official, Univ Montreal

Perkins, Susan

Post

1987-1990

Staff scientist, NCI Frederick

Dickerson, Ian

Post

1985-1989

Assoc Prof, Univ Miami

Marek, Ken

Post

1985-1989

Assoc Prof, Yale

West, Mark

Pre

1984-1989

Post, Univ Calif Davis

Cullen, Ed

Post

1984-1987

Director Preclinical Research, EISAI America

Wand, Gary

Post

1983-1987

Prof of Med., Johns Hopkins

Sato, Sheryl

Post

1983-1987

Sr. Staff Fellow, NIH

Dores, Bob

Post

1979-1983

Professor, Univ Denver; Dept. Chair

Gasson, Judy

Pre

1976-1979

Prof., UCLA; Head of Jonsson Cancer Center

Helms, Jill

Pre

1986-1993

Asst. Prof., UCSF

Rockwood, Julia

Pre

1988-1995

Postdoc Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Christie, Douglas

Post

1984-1986

Prof., Acad. of Health Sci., San Antonio, TX

Runyan, Raymond

Post

1983-1984

Assoc. Prof. Univ, of Arizona

Hennig, Anne

Post

1993-1995

Res. Assoc, Central Inst. Deaf, St. Louis MO

Hutson, K.

Post

1988-1991

Assistant Professor, Univ. Toledo

Feng, J.

Pre

1984-1989

Assoc. Prof., S. CT State Univ

Hrynkow,Hemond S

Pre

1986-1990

Deputy Dir, Office Intl. Sci. Policy, Fogarty Cntr, NIH

Robertson,G

Post

1992-1993

Res. Assoc. Dalhousie Univ., Nova Scotia

Hossain, A.

Post

1993-1994

Pathology Residency, Hartford Hospital

Hossain, W.

Post

1993-1995

Instructor, UCHC

Hendriks, R.

Post

1994-1998

Research Assoc., Trinity College, Hartford

Hurd, L.

Post

1994-1997

Postdoctoral Fellow, UCHC

Kim, J.

Post

1993-1997

Dental Student, UCHC

Bilak, S.

Post

1993-1996

Res. Fellow, Johns Hopkins

Bilak, M.

Post

1993-1996

Research Fellow, Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Med.

Josephson, E.

Post

1995-2000

Asst. Prof., Auburn Univ.

Ohtomo, Kazuo

Post
Visiting Prof.

-
1993-1994

Prof., Akita University, Japan

Henkel, Craig K.

Post
Visiting Prof.

1985

Prof., Wake Forest University,Winston-Salem, N.C.

Peruzzi, Daniel

Post

1993-1997

Asst. Professor, New York Inst. of Tech., Coll. of Osteopathic Medicine.

Knox, Tony

Post

1994-1996

Medical student, Albany College of Medicine

Shneiderman, Amiram

Post

1986-1989

Staff, House Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

Ahghari, Soheil

Pre

1990-1992

Pharmacist at CVS, CT

Gross, Eitan

Post

1993

Asst. Prof., Case Western Reserve

Primorac, Dragan

Post

1993

Asst. Prof., Univ. of Split, Croatia

Gupta, Kapil

Post

1995-1996

Resident, Bowman Gray Sch. of Med.

LaPlante, Janice

Post

1996

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard

Hong-Feng, Zhang

Post

1996-1997

Albert Einstein Coll., NY

Andjelkovic, Anuska

Post

1997-1999

Instructor, UCHC, Pharmacology

Nikolic, Anica

Post

1997-1999

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale

Schneider, Barbara

Pre

1989

Assoc. Prof., Univ. of LA Med. Ctr., New Orleans, LA

Deretic, Dusanka

Pre

1992

Asst. Prof, Univ. of MI Med. Sch., Ann Arbor, MI

Polans, Arthur

Post

1984-1986

Assoc. Prof., Univ. of WI, Madison, WI

Agarwal, Neeraj

Post

1986-1991

Asst. Prof., Univ. of N. TX Hlth. Sci. Cntr., Ft. Worth, TX.

Yamaguchi, Yoshihide

Post

1995-98

Asst. Professor, Japan.

Madison, Dana

Pre

1993-97

Internship/Residency at Univ. of Oregon Hlth. Sci. Cntr., Portland, OR

Warrington, Arthur

Pre

1987-92

Asst. Prof., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Gonye, Gregory

Pre

1986-1991

Professor, Phil. Medical School, PA

Krueger, Winfried

Post

1994-1999

CBIT, UConn Health Center

Joly, Eric

Post

1993-1994

Asst. Prof., Univ. of Montreal.

Gard, Anthony

Post

1986-1991

Assoc. Prof., S. Alabama Med. Sch.

Benson, Christina

Post

1984-1988

Research Assoc., Dept. of Neurobiology Duke University Medical Center

Hanrahan, Chris

Pre

1996-1999

MD/PhD Student Fellowship, UCHC

Baker, Ross A.

Pre

1986-1992

Univ. of Pittsburgh

Devlin, Thomas G.

Pre

1985-1991

Faculty, Univ. of Tennessee Med. School

Zacharia, Mayya

Pre

1994

Studying in Paris, France

Norholm, Seth

Pre

1996-1997

PhD student at Florida State Univ.

Cohen, Carolyn

Post

1992-1993

Faculty, Tufts Univ.

Arons, Cynthia

Post

1994-1996

Research Director, Conn. Nurses Assoc.

Salomon, Ronald

Post

1985-1987

Faculty, Vanderbilt Univ.

Bernstein, Leslie

Pre

1979-1984

Assistant Professor Univ. of Conn. Health Ctr.

Buell, Thomas

Post

1988-1990

Research Psychologist Naval Submarine Medical Res. Lab.

Amenta, Charles

Pre

1984-1986

Otolaryngologist (Private Practice)

Smoski, Walter

Pre

1978-1981

Associate Professor Speech & Hearing Science, Illinois State Univ.

Schiano, Jeffery

Pre

1983-1985

Associate Professor University Dept. Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Illinois

Heller, Laurie

Post

1992-1994

Naval Submarine Base

Grange, Anthony

Post

1994

Computer Engineer

van der Heijden, M

Post

1995-1997

Contract Researcher Eindhoven, Nether. The Netherlands

Milosevic, Ana

Pre & Post

1990-1993

Post Univ. of Columbia Medical School, NY

Vukosavic, Slobodanka

Pre

1991-1993

Post Univ. of Columbia Med. School, NY

Bajcetic, Predrag

Pre

1991-1993 1996-1998

Assistant Professor of University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Andjelkovic, Anuska

Post

1995-1996

Instructor, UCHC

Signore, Armondo Pre 1995-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow
Univ. of Pittsburgh
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